Chaitanyanand Koppiker, Sneha Joshi, Rupa Mishra, Devaki A Kelkar, Pragnya Chigurupati, Anjali Joshi, Jisha John, Shweta Kadu, Amitkumar Bagdia, Deepti Thakkar, Chetan Deshmukh, Harikiran Allampati, Gautam Sharan, Upendra Dhar, Smeeta Nare, Sanket Nagarkar, Laleh Busheri, Beenu Varghese, Mugdha Pai
INTRODUCTION: The majority of breast cancer patients from India usually present with advanced disease, limiting the scope of breast conservation surgery. Therapeutic mammoplasty (TM), an oncoplastic technique that permits larger excisions, is quite promising in such a scenario and well suited to breast cancer in medium-to-large-sized breasts with ptosis and in some cases of large or multifocal/multicentric tumors. Here, we describe our TM cohort of 205 (194 malignant and 11 benign) patients from 2012 to 2019 treated at a single surgeon center in India, the largest Asian dataset for TM...
2023: Frontiers in Oncology